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Android Wear stupidwatches now work with Apple iPhones
Google Android Wear smartwatches work with Apple iPhones – sort of…
Apple Watch already dominates smart-wearables market, says IDC
Apple is the dominant provider of smart wearable devices in its very first quarter of sales…
Believing failed industry analysis
If you can believe what some industry analysts have been saying…
IDC estimates Apple sold 3.6 million Apple Watch units in Q2
Apple Watch already has some 66% market share in “smart wearables” after debuting to severe supply constraints…
IDC: Worldwide Tablet shipments to decline 8.0% in 2015 while 2-in-1 devices to grow 86.5%
With the possibility that Apple will unveil a larger, screen-detachable iPad, this is the space to watch…
IDC: Apple iPad maintains its lead as worldwide tablet market declines -7.0% YOY
The worldwide tablet market declined -7.0% year over year in Q215…
PC shipments plunge, but Apple Mac sales surge
Fewer and fewer people are buying PCs, unless they are made by Apple…
IDC: Mac sales up 16.1% in June quarter as PC industry shrinks 11.8 percent
Continuing to buck trends, Mac sales rose 16.1 percent year-over-year…
Apple’s iPhone 6/Plus ends China’s cheap streak
Chin could become the mobile industry’s next profit frontier…
Apple’s push into China is crushing beleaguered Samsung
Over the last few months Apple has heavily invested in China…
Apple closes in on struggling Samsung in Western Europe smartphone unit share
Apple’s shipments climbed from 26.9 million to 30.9 million…
Tablet numbers are bad for Apple but worse for Samsung
The tablet computer market isn’t what it used to be…
The one huge thing everybody gets wrong about tablets
The people projecting these numbers aren’t looking at the market…
Amazon Kindle tablet shipments crater, down 70% in holiday quarter
Apple’s lead over other vendors has yet to be truly challenged…
How Apple and HP defied sluggish PC sales in 2014
Worldwide PC shipments will fall around 3% this year, accelerating from a 2.1% drop in 2014…
Apple Mac surges as global PC sales falter in fourth quarter
Apple’s indomitable Macintosh continues to outpace the rest of the PC market…
Estimates peg Mac sales up 19% to new all-time record
Apple sold a record number of Macs in the quarter that ended December…
IDC: Apple continues to outgrow the PC market, No. 3 in U.S. market share, No. 5 worldwide
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 80.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014…
Apple’s rumored 12-inch MacBook Air may aggressively target mobility via USB 3.1 Type-C
An ultra-thin MacBook Air that drops nearly all of its physical ports for a single audio jack and USB 3.1 Type-C connector…
Intel’s Broadwell chip will allow Apple to finally go Retina with MacBook Air
The new Core processors and graphics chipsets that Intel launched on Monday…
Chinese Xiaomi copycat hit with patent infringement lawsuits, sales bans
Xiaomi Corp. became the biggest smartphone seller in China by peddling iPhone knockoffs…
China’s Xiaomi made a meager $56 million profit in 2013
South Korea’s LG lost its position as the world’s third-biggest…
No, Google Chromebooks did NOT overtake Apple in U.S. education, not even close
Lies, damned lies, and statistics…
IDC: Windows Phone will not surpass Apple’s iOS by 2018
According to a new mobile phone forecast from the International Data Corporation…
Why did IDC lowball Apple’s Mac sales by 9.7% last quarter?
IDC estimated two weeks ago that Apple…
IDC again undercounts Mac unit sales
Yesterday, IDC released numbers indicating that Apple’s Mac…
Would you hold your iPad up to your face to make a phone call?
Would you hold your iPad up to your face to make a phone call?
IDC: Apple again took the smartphone cream in Q2
The highlights of IDC’s mobile phone report for the second quarter of 201…
Why Apple isn’t worried about iPad’s IDC tablet ‘market share’
In the face of dubious market research portraying Apple’s iPad…
IDC: Samsung phone shipments down 4%, Apple iPhone up 12%
The worldwide smartphone market grew 23.1% year over year…
IDC and Gartner numbers do not jibe with Apple’s double digit U.S. Mac growth
Apple reported ‘strong double digit growth’ in its Mac sales in the U.S…
Apple iPad losing market share but maintaining strong leads in usage and profitability
IDC released its estimates for June quarter tablet shipments…
IDC: Apple iPad maintains lead in worldwide tablet market
The worldwide tablet grew 11.0% year over year in the second quarter of 2014…
Apple iPad under threat as larger phones seen gaining favor
Larger smartphones, which IDC calls ‘phablets’…
IDC predicts Apple iPhone market share to drop to 13.7% in 2018
According to a recently published mobile phone forecast from IDC…
With 15.5% of smartphone market share in Q1, Apple took 65% of all handset profits
According to IDC, Apple’s share of worldwide smartphone shipments was…
IDC: Apple iPad maintains lead in worldwide tablet market share
Worldwide tablet plus 2-in-1 shipments slipped to 50.4 million units…
Bad news for Apple: People love their iPads
Apple sold more than 70 million iPads last year…
IDC: PC shipments to fall by -6% in 2014 and decline through 2018
Worldwide PC shipments fell by -9.8% in 201…
IDC: Apple iPhone to maintain high value, margins, and market share through 2018
Apple’s iOS will have the highest ASPs among the leading platforms…
Will Bill Gates pull a ‘Steve Jobs’ at Microsoft?
In naming Satya Nadella as Microsoft’s new chief executive officer…
